And just like that, the media went silent about the shooting at the STEM school in Colorado

Here4money said:
Lunacy, delusional paranoia, anthropophobia, call it whatever you want,

Unsafe storage practices are also a key contributor to gun violence death and injury, particularly among vulnerable populations like children. A 2018 study found that approximately 4.6 million American children and minors are living in homes with at least one loaded and unlocked firearm.7 Another study similarly reported that “[o]f the homes with children and firearms, 55% were reported to have one or more firearms in an unlocked place,” and 43% reported keeping guns without a trigger lock in an unlocked place.8

Studies show that these unsecured weapons are frequently accessible to—and accessed by—young children, even when parents believe they are not. 73% of children aged nine and under reported knowing the location of their parents’ firearms and 36% admitted that they had handled the weapons, including many whose parents had reported their children did not know the location of their firearm.9 It is therefore unsurprising that 89% of accidental shooting deaths among children occur in the home and that most of these deaths occur when children are playing with an unsecured loaded gun in their parents’ absence.10
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No one is arguing that unsafe storage is a key contributor to children getting hurt or killed by firearms their parents own. No one. In fact, I'm on your side on this argument - until you make the random and baseless leap to the fact that someone owning a firearm for home defense is a lunatic, or suffers from delusional paranoia, or anthropophobia. Get a clue. One has nothing to do with the other.

Its like saying that not wearing your seat belt is the number one cause of auto death, and then linking this to driving a car because people are afraid to walk to their destination.
 
Tsing Tao said:
No one is arguing that unsafe storage is a key contributor to children getting hurt or killed by firearms their parents own. No one. In fact, I'm on your side on this argument - until you make the random and baseless leap to the fact that someone owning a firearm for home defense is a lunatic, or suffers from delusional paranoia, or anthropophobia. Get a clue. One has nothing to do with the other.

Its like saying that not wearing your seat belt is the number one cause of auto death, and then linking this to driving a car because people are afraid to walk to their destination.
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I didn't say owning a gun makes anyone a lunatic (and you accuse me of baseless claims). Hell, owning an arsenal is fine by me; but you're in denial if you don't know a ton of prepper-types who buy into the fantasy that their home is going to be raided any minute by MS-13 and they need to keep their gun by the nightstand. There's no other reason that 55% of gun owners with kids keep firearms unlocked/unsafe short of negligence or unjustified fear. Both of which should be disqualifiers.
 
Here4money said:
I didn't say owning a gun makes anyone a lunatic (and you accuse me of baseless claims). Hell, owning an arsenal is fine by me; but you're in denial if you don't know a ton of prepper-types who buy into the fantasy that their home is going to be raided any minute by MS-13 and they need to keep their gun by the nightstand. There's no other reason that 55% of gun owners with kids keep firearms unlocked/unsafe short of negligence or unjustified fear. Both of which should be disqualifiers.
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More back peddling. You're becoming the king of it around here.

The reason most people keep guns unlocked has nothing to do with some imagined horseshit fantasy you think is out there, but sheer stupidity. Its no different than people who drive without a seat belt or worse, let their kids ride without a seat belt.

Stupid people are all over the place.
 
Tsing Tao said:
More back peddling. You're becoming the king of it around here.

The reason most people keep guns unlocked has nothing to do with some imagined horseshit fantasy you think is out there, but sheer stupidity. Its no different than people who drive without a seat belt or worse, let their kids ride without a seat belt.

Stupid people are all over the place.
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Show me where I backpedaled by saying gun owners are lunatics. Put up or shut up. Sure, many gun owners are stupid, but you're just making as big a bullshit assertion by saying many don't live in some grown child quasi-alpha man of action delusion. I know several gun owners, and it fits the description to a t. Hell, a coworker of mine just last week was chastising his house mate for "sneaking up" to his room one day and risking getting blasted.
 
When you replied to AAA by claiming he was a lunatic simply because he did not believe in storage of his firearms. You assumed this is because he is secretly harboring fantasies of blowing away someone in his house. Then you tried to tie statistics of unsafe storage to people who are lunatics on some connection of "because they don't store them correctly, they must have them sitting under their bed for a secret hope of killing someone in their house" or some bullshit.

Since then you try narrowing the scope of this stupid claim by saying it refers to preppers or people you know personally.

You're just a troll who will never admit to saying something you didn't intend. Can never admit it.
 
Here4money said:
No amount of guns will keep you safe from being snacked in the face with reality.
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The many, many folks who have protected themselves and their family with their firearms would soundly disagree with your view from the cheap seats.
 
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